Crispin Blunt
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Crispin Blunt MP |
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| Chair of the Foreign Affairs Select Committee | |
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Assumed office 18 June 2015 |
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| Preceded by | Sir Richard Ottaway |
| Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Prisons and Youth Justice | |
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In office 6 May 2010 – 4 September 2012 |
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| Succeeded by | Jeremy Wright |
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Member of Parliament for Reigate |
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Assumed office 1 May 1997 |
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| Preceded by | Sir George Gardiner |
| Majority | 13,591 (27.2%) |
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Crispin Jeremy Rupert Blunt 15 July 1960 Germany |
| Nationality | British |
| Political party | Conservative |
| Spouse(s) | Victoria Jenkins (m. 1990, separated 2010) |
| Relations | Emily Blunt (niece) |
| Children | Claudia (born 1992) Frederick (born 1994) |
| Alma mater |
Sandhurst Durham University |
| Website |
Personal Website Commons Website |
| Military service | |
| Service/branch | British Army |
| Years of service | 1979–1990 |
| Rank | Captain |
| Unit | 13th/18th Royal Hussars (Queen Mary's Own) |
Crispin Jeremy Rupert Blunt (born 15 July 1960) is a British Conservative Party politician. He is the Member of Parliament (MP) for the Reigate constituency in Surrey, and from May 2010 to September 2012 he was the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Prisons and Youth Justice within the Ministry of Justice.
Blunt first entered the House of Commons at the 1997 general election, when he replaced the then MP Sir George Gardiner who had been deselected by the Constituency Conservative Association Executive Council.
In 2013, Blunt was himself deselected by the Constituency Executive Council, amid rumours that this was due to his public announcement of his being gay. However, after a ballot of party members in Reigate, the decision was overturned by a margin of 5-1 and Blunt was reselected as the Conservative candidate for the 2015 general election.
Blunt was born in Germany, one of three sons of English parents Adrienne (née Richardson) and Major-General Peter Blunt (1923–2003). He was educated at Wellington College, and the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, where he won the Queen's Medal, gaining a Regular Commission, before reading Politics at University College, Durham between 1981 and 1984, where he was elected President of the Durham Union Society in 1983 and graduated with a 2:1 degree. In 1991, he gained an MBA at the Cranfield School of Management.
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